http://www.free-rentals.com/blog Free Listings of Vacation Rentals Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:32:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The number one free vacation rental website keeps getting bigger. Free-Rentals.com just crossed the 300k mark in terms of Alexa traffic rank, making it the largest free vacation rental website online. Thank you to everyone for your participation, it's only with the help of vacation rental home owners that we can ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/free-rentalscom-hits-new-high-in-alexa-ranking.html The Playa Potrero vacation rental listing on Free-Rentals.com called Lazy Pelican Cabinas signed up for our advertising services last year and paid $169 USD for a 6 month PPC campaign.   Below are the results of this campaign. We paid out a total of $138 USD to drive targeted traffic to their listing. Over ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/playa-potrero-vacation-rental-performance.html We are pleased to announce that free-rentals.com now has 7000 Vacation Rental listings worldwide. Free-Rentals.com is now the largest vacation rental directory website offering owners a 100% free to advertise opportunity. http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/free-rentalscom-hits-7000-vacation-rental-listings.html Free-Rentals.com just broke 2 major trendlines today. For the first time, Free-Rentals.com dropped below the 400k mark... meaning, it's roughly the 400 thousandth most popular website on the internet.   And secondly, Free-Rentals.com has doubled the amount of time each visitor spends on time reviewing vacation rental listings while tripling the number ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/free-rentalscom-breaks-400k-alexa-ranking.html The Free-Rentals.com business model is to put the vacation rental industry back into the hands of individual vacation home owners. What that means to the average vacation home owner is this... Free-Rentals.com offers you tools and services to actively market and promote your vacation rental. In contrast, the big stalwart companies ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/how-to-market-your-vacation-rental.html Even long term renters have to be aware that the landlord who rents you a place may not actually be the landlord. With the amount of vacant and foreclosed homes in todays market, at least one scumbag tried taking advantage of it by posting as a landlord and renting out ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/long-term-renters-beware-of-fake-landlords.html The blogger HomeExchanger has announced a full boycott on VRBO and is trying to round the troups. Her first grip is that websites such as VRBO that allow people "to list a swap home for rent introduces commercialism into the equation. It also puts a price tag on individual homes ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/homeexchanger-boycotts-vrbo.html Microsofts new search engine Bing looks promising. Not sure if I'm ready to move from Google to it, but will continue to give it a shot.   On the other hand, their travel search engine Bing Travel rocks. I'll certainly be using it first and foremost for all my flight needs. Other ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/bing-travel-search-rocks.html This summer is shaping up to offer some of the most spectacular vacation rental discounts and deals ever seen since the industry boomed with 16 years ago with the advent of the internet. According to the New York Times, here are excerpts in store for this summer's vacation rental industry: Part of ... http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/summer-09-biggest-vacation-rental-deals-ever.html If you need to edit your vacation rental listing on Free-Rentals.com. Simply follow the following steps... 1) Make sure you are logged in as a member. 2) Visit the following URL: http://www.free-rentals.com/members 3) The image below shows how to edit various aspects of your listing. http://www.free-rentals.com/blog/how-to-edit-your-vacation-rental-listing.html